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From: JSidman at aol.com <JSidman>
Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2000 12:19:47 EDT
Our city paper (the Minneapolis Star Tribune) has also dropped weekly children's book reviews, and relegates them to a sidebar in the Variety section once in a while. This sidebar is oriented toward
"problem-solving"--i.e. back to school books or how-to-get-your-kids-to?dtime books. Gone are the evaluations of children's books as literature. Is this a trend country-wide? It worries me. Also, by shunting children's books off to their own list--and then excluding that list from most newspapers--are we just trying to make children's books disappear?
Joyce Sidman Wayzata, MN Author of "Just Us Two: Poems about Animal Dads"
Received on Wed 06 Sep 2000 11:19:47 AM CDT
Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2000 12:19:47 EDT
Our city paper (the Minneapolis Star Tribune) has also dropped weekly children's book reviews, and relegates them to a sidebar in the Variety section once in a while. This sidebar is oriented toward
"problem-solving"--i.e. back to school books or how-to-get-your-kids-to?dtime books. Gone are the evaluations of children's books as literature. Is this a trend country-wide? It worries me. Also, by shunting children's books off to their own list--and then excluding that list from most newspapers--are we just trying to make children's books disappear?
Joyce Sidman Wayzata, MN Author of "Just Us Two: Poems about Animal Dads"
Received on Wed 06 Sep 2000 11:19:47 AM CDT
